QGIS 3.0.1 does not launch with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS?

Question

I just performed an upgrade on my Lubuntu 16.04 and upgrade QGIS to 3.0.1. After the upgrade, however, qgis wouldn't launch, either from the command line or using the desktop icon. If I type

$ qgis

, it just returns silently without any error messages. The only thing that works is qgis --help.

$ ls -l $(which qgis)

shows:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 411 Mar 24 10:34 /usr/bin/qgis

If I do sudo apt-get install qgis, I get:

qgis is already the newest version (1:3.0.1+24xenial-ubuntugis).

I have tried direct upgrade, removing qgis and then reinstall:

sudo apt-get remove libpq* qgis* python-qgis* grass* --purge
sudo apt-get autoremove --purge

, to no avail.

My apt source entries are:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntugis/ubuntugis-unstable/ubuntu xenial main
deb https://qgis.org/ubuntugis  xenial main

Has anyone experienced similar problems and know of a solution?

Answer 1

It turns out that the virtualbox guest additions (5.2.8) that's installed on the VM is the problem. If I fix the following three packages using sudo apt-mark hold, the problem disappears..

virtualbox-guest-dkms
virtualbox-guest-utils
virtualbox-guest-x11